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KDE 4.1 was released at the end of July 2008. This is a significant milestone for the KDE 4 series and for KDE in general, but as an early

release in the KDE 4 cycle, it does have some known issues which will not be fixed in KDE 4.1. Huge progress has been made in KDE 4.1 which is listed in the [[Schedules/KDE4/4.1_Feature_Plan|KDE 4.1 Feature Plan]].

release in the KDE 4 cycle, it does have some known issues which will not be fixed in KDE 4.1. Huge progress has been made in KDE 4.1 which is listed in the [[Schedules/KDE4/4.1_Feature_Plan|KDE 4.1 Feature Plan]].

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Some of the more obvious issues are listed below. If these issues are important to you, you should stay with KDE 3.5.9 until KDE 4.2 when most of these issues are scheduled to be resolved.

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Some of the more obvious issues are listed below. If these issues are important to you, you should stay with KDE 3.5 (KDE 3.5.10 was released in [[Schedules/KDE_3.5_Release_Schedule#August_2008:_Expected_release_date_of_KDE_3.5.10|August 2008]]) until KDE 4.2 is released (scheduled for release in [[Schedules/KDE4/4.2_Release_Schedule|January 2009]]) when most of these issues are scheduled to be resolved.

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It is possible that distributions will work around some of these issues before distributing to users.

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in February 2009.

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== Graphics Performance ==

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Users of NVidia cards with the binary driver provided by NVidia might suffer from performance problems in window switching and resizing. A fixed NVidia driver has been [http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html released.]

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FolderView is a new technology on the KDE 4 desktop which allows more than one collection of icons on your "desktop" and discourages making it the

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FolderView is a new technology on the KDE 4 desktop which allows more than one collection of icons on your "desktop". However, it can still be configured to behave much like KDE 3 did. See [http://blog.lydiapintscher.de/2008/06/14/folderview-is-the-awesome/ this blog entry by Lydia Pintscher] for some more information on FolderView.

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dumping ground for miscellaneous files (though that is also possible, like in KDE 3). See [http://blog.lydiapintscher.de/2008/06/14/folderview-is-the-awesome/|this blog entry by Lydia Pintscher] for some infomation on FolderView.

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The following issues are known are scheduled to be resolved in KDE 4.2 next February:

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The following issues are known and are scheduled to be resolved in KDE 4.2:

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* Icons do not need to be in a grid. You can drag them to any point within the FolderView. However, the location you leave them in is not saved, so they will be a grid again the next time you start the desktop.

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* Icons do not need to be in a grid: you can drag them to any point within the FolderView. However, the location you leave them in is not saved, so they will be in a grid again the next time you start the desktop.

* You can have a full screen "desktop with icons", but if you do, you can not have a desktop background. See also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhYinDOKbE8

* You can have a full screen "desktop with icons", but if you do, you can not have a desktop background. See also: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhYinDOKbE8

* You can have a desktop background, but then you must use the FolderView in regular, not entire screen mode (as shown in Lydia's blog above).

* You can have a desktop background, but then you must use the FolderView in regular, not entire screen mode (as shown in Lydia's blog above).

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* Autohiding of panels is not yet configurable.

* Autohiding of panels is not yet configurable.

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== Applications ==

=== New and missing applications ===

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Some KDE 3 applications have not yet been ported to KDE 4. Most distributions still package KDE 3 versions of these applications with their KDE 4 desktop. Some notable applications which will not be included in KDE 4.1 are listed below:

KPlayer 0.7 is the KDE4 port of KPlayer that was released on the same day as KDE 4.0. KPlayer 0.7.1 is planned for fall 2008 and will include a KDE4 port of its multimedia library which still used KDE3 compatibility layer in version 0.7.0.

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KDE 4.1 was released at the end of July 2008. This is a significant milestone for the KDE 4 series and for KDE in general, but as an early
release in the KDE 4 cycle, it does have some known issues which will not be fixed in KDE 4.1. Huge progress has been made in KDE 4.1 which is listed in the KDE 4.1 Feature Plan.

Some of the more obvious issues are listed below. If these issues are important to you, you should stay with KDE 3.5 (KDE 3.5.10 was released in August 2008) until KDE 4.2 is released (scheduled for release in January 2009) when most of these issues are scheduled to be resolved.

It is possible that distributions will work around some of these issues before distributing to users.

The desktop in KDE 4.1 will mark the start of some significant user interface changes. This is a step away from the way the KDE 3 desktop was
designed, but everything possible on your KDE 3.5.9 desktop will also be possible on your KDE 4 desktop. For KDE 4.1, however, some features
are not yet complete, but should be ready for KDE 4.2.

This page is under construction. This section could really do with some screenshots on the page. You can help by editing this page.

FolderView is a new technology on the KDE 4 desktop which allows more than one collection of icons on your "desktop". However, it can still be configured to behave much like KDE 3 did. See this blog entry by Lydia Pintscher for some more information on FolderView.

The following issues are known and are scheduled to be resolved in KDE 4.2:

Icons do not need to be in a grid: you can drag them to any point within the FolderView. However, the location you leave them in is not saved, so they will be in a grid again the next time you start the desktop.

Some panel issues can be resolved before KDE 4.2. Because of the modular design of Plasma, a new panel could be quite easily written with autohide functionality. This would likely be written by a distribution team or a developer on kde-apps.org.

Autohiding of panels is not yet configurable.

It is not possible to set different desktop wallpapers for different virtual desktops.

Session management is not fully implemented yet, at least not as you're used to from KDE 3.5. Some of these features might get implemented in a 4.1.x release.

Even though the System Settings module offers you an option to start your day with a Manually Saved Session, there's no option yet in the menu to actually save one. The functionality is available via D-Bus though and some distributions already include patches to fix this. See bug 155341 for details.

For a number of applications, e.g. Konsole, sessions do not get restored.

Some KDE 3 applications have not yet been ported to KDE 4. Most distributions still package KDE 3 versions of these applications with their KDE 4 desktop. Some notable applications which will not be included in KDE 4.1 are listed below:

KPlayer 0.7 is the KDE4 port of KPlayer that was released on the same day as KDE 4.0. KPlayer 0.7.1 is planned for fall 2008 and will include a KDE4 port of its multimedia library which still used KDE3 compatibility layer in version 0.7.0.